This server also runs a hobby site of mine (look at my sig to figure it out) It got mentioned on hardocp.com today, which resulted in something very similar to the slashdot effect.

That said, the server has not crashed at all, and was serving (at one point) 220 requests per second. It's capped at 225 per second, so we're obviously hitting our max capacity. That's one hell of a lot of connections per second...

Anyway, if someone wants to donate some money for a dual-proc mobo, we'll be happy to upgrade to a faster server. Until then, we'll have to poke along with our poor Athlon XP 1800+/512MB RAM.

--kurt_________________The problem with political jokes is that they get elected

This server also runs a hobby site of mine (look at my sig to figure it out) It got mentioned on hardocp.com today, which resulted in something very similar to the slashdot effect.

Is this by any chance the cause of extremelly slow updates when you edit your post after submitting it?_________________You're jumping to conclusions, so I can't keep up with you. Go on without me, I'll just slow you down.

It also seems posts don't get counted correctly. I made two posts in a row to a thread and both got listed with the same post count. Not that it's important, but in the long run I'd like not to be a n00b

I made two posts in a row to a thread and both got listed with the same post count.

phpBB always shows your most recent post count. So, right now your post count shows as 23, no matter which of your posts you look at. Once you post to another thread, they will all show 24, then 25 and so on.

--kurt_________________The problem with political jokes is that they get elected